~ My love of gardening, making home comfortable and entertaining friends and family.

4th of July Entertaining

Since 4th of July landed on a Saturday this year, we decided to host a small party of friends for the celebration. Each couple brought some part of the meal and a bottle of wine. Thankfully pot luck style has become a standard practice within my group of friends. I’m not sure if it’s my age or simply the fact that it makes entertaining so much easier, but I love it. It gives me more time to be creative with the table setting and other details. Once I knew I was going to have this party I decided I wanted some festive cloth napkins for the dinner table. It was challenging to find napkins that were suitably simple and ‘patriotic’ in appearance. So after an unsuccessful search of local stores, I decided I’d attempt to find the fabric online and make the napkins. I searched online for discount fabric sites and found Warehouse Fabrics. They have a wide variety of fabrics and the price was very reasonable. I ordered 3 yards of a crimson red cotton with white stars. The fabric was $6 a yard and it afforded me 8 napkins, not bad for $18 + tax. I hand stitched the hems, mostly because I was too lazy to get the sewing machine out. The napkins added to my table setting.